Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 12:53:23 -0800 From: "Jerry E. McGoveran" <jerry@certus.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org, aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Catch-22 - Help! Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19981028125323.00980c00@value.net> In-Reply-To: <m0zY6Dk-000NnDC@haitech.martin.home> References: <Oz Dror's message of "Mon, 26 Oct 1998 22:53:20 -0800 (PST)"> <199810270653.WAA22730@OZ.DROR>
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I have a Debian installation in which the ethernet card driver is apparently not installed. There were some errors at this stage of the installation process, but the screen drew and reset to the inst. menu too fast to read anything. I finished the installation, and now I need to update the kernel and the drivers. I can't compile a kernel (downloaded 2.0.35 src) because I don't have gcc. I can't install the gcc package because I don't have network access in Linux - only under Win95. My Linux installation has a 2.0.32 kernel with 2.0.34 drivers, and this is probably why the drivers don't work. I'm using the 2.0.32 kernel because the 2.0.34 kernel wasn't working with my AHA2842 SCSI adapter. Questions: 1) Can I get there from here? 2) How do I install a package assuming I can get the .deb files onto a mounted filesystem? Dselect asks for a series of directory pathnames, and complains when it doesn't find various files and directories within them. 3) Is there a direct way to update the kernel and/or drivers without having to compile a kernel or use dselect? 4) Should I give up on Debian and go buy the RedHat CD and hope for better results? 5) Why did I want a Linux system in the first place? :/ Advance appreciation for any and all help offered! -Jerry ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Certus Consulting Group | Specializing in Integrated Circuit Antioch, CA 94509 | Design and Verification, Logic (925)757-0685 | Synthesis, Fault Grading, and <http://www.certus.com>; | Test Development To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-aic7xxx" in the body of the message
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